Children killed, men detained, families fleeing: Scenes of devastation in Israel's assault on northern Gaza
Harrowing images have emerged from Israel's deadly offensive in northern Gaza in recent days as officials warn of airstrikes, forced displacement and possible famine.
Children killed while rushing to flee their homes; families carrying whatever possessions they can as they navigate bomb-blasted roads; dozens of detained men lined up on a muddy hillside: These and other stark images have emerged from Israel's deadly offensive in northern Gaza in recent days.
Israel's renewed assault on the north of the Palestinian enclave has fueled mounting warnings from officials and aid groups around the world about "nonstop" Israeli strikes, forced displacement and possible famine.
“In northern Gaza, people are just waiting to die,” Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of UNRWA, the United Nations’ agency supporting Palestinian refugees, said in a statement Tuesday, sounding the alarm on the dire humanitarian situation in the north. Already, he said, "the smell of death is everywhere."
Video captured by an NBC News crew showed dozens of people fleeing the area of the Jabalia refugee camp on Monday, surrounded by buildings that had been reduced to rubble. Young children could be seen among those fleeing, with most people carrying no more than a single backpack.
That same day, the NBC News crew captured the panic that followed a strike in which paramedics said at least nine people were killed while trying to flee Jabalia to nearby Beit Lahia.
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